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Playhouse Strip Poker
DOS1988NSFW strategy
Desert Rats
DOS1986 strategy
Released in 1986, Desert Rats is a strategy game that puts you in charge of the North African campaign of World War II. Don’t let the cute title fool you—there are no a...
Crazy Cars
DOS1987 racing
Back in 1987, Crazy Cars asked the eternal question: how fast can you go before the road becomes an abstract blur? Armed with a sleek sports car and the confidence of someone who&r...
ELIZA for DOS
DOS1988 application
ELIZA, created in the mid-1960s by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT, was one of the first computer programs to simulate human conversation. Designed as a natural language processing demons...
Pro Tennis Tour
DOS1989 sports
Hocus Pocus
DOS1994protected action
Hocus Pocus is the kind of platformer that seems to run on pure sugar and cheerful chaos. You play as a young wizard with more enthusiasm than common sense, bouncing through colorf...
Operation Europe: Path to Victory 1939-45
DOS1994 strategy
Shogun
DOS1986 action-adventure
Legend of the Silver Talisman
DOS1996freeware rpg
By 1996, Legend of the Silver Talisman delivered a more traditional RPG adventure, though with a decidedly old-school feel. It’s a game that doesn’t bother holding your...
Moonwalker
DOS1989 action
Before rhythm games took over, there was Moonwalker (1989), where you play as none other than Michael Jackson himself, saving kidnapped kids by dancing enemies into submission. Yes...
Skyfox II: The Cygnus Conflict
DOS1988 vehicle simulation
Tracon: Air Traffic Control Simulator
DOS1989 simulation
Wing Commander 3
Windows XP/98/95DOSMac OS1994protected vehicle simulation
2112
DOS1994 adventure
Welcome to 2112, a game that predicted a grim techno-future back when floppy disks still ruled. This DOS-era oddity throws you into a world that’s part cyberpunk, part fever ...
Battle Isle
DOS1991protected strategy
Turns out war is a lot tidier when it’s turn-based. Battle Isle (1991) gives you neat little hexagons to move your units on, like a very angry board game. It’s got stra...
Fantastic Dizzy
DOS1994 action-adventure
Fantastic Dizzy, released in 1994, stars a cheerful egg with an unfortunate talent for getting into trouble. This platform-adventure hybrid mixes exploration, puzzle-solving, and l...
Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?
DOSMac OS1988 adventure
Beneath Apple Manor
DOS1983freeware rpg
Beneath Apple Manor is a pioneering game in the roguelike genre, originally developed and released in 1978 by Don Worth for the Apple II and later re-released for DOS as a "Special...
Lynx
DOS1992freeware application
Dragon Slayer: the Legend of Heroes
DOS1989 rpg
Omikron: The Nomad Soul
Windows XP/98/951999protected action-adventure
Omikron: The Nomad Soul (1999, Windows XP) is the kind of game that leans across the table and says, “What if we mashed every genre together and asked David Bowie to help?&rd...
Prisoner of Ice
DOS1995protected adventure
Grandmaster Chess
DOS1992protected strategy
Grandmaster Chess is not here to hold your hand, compliment your moves, or pretend that losing is part of the fun. In Grandmaster Chess, you are up against a computer that takes it...
The Summoning
DOS1992protected adventure
King of Chicago
DOSMac OS1987 action-adventure
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
DOS1992 shooter
When Die Hard 2: Die Harder hit DOS in 1992, it decided the airport setting meant “time for an on-rails shooter.” Picture John McClane glued to a track, blasting bad gu...
Pac PC
DOS1995freewareremake action
Return to Ringworld
DOS1994 adventure
The sequel to Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch, Return to Ringworld throws you back into Larry Niven’s vast sci-fi universe—except this time, the puzzles are tougher...
Journey to the Center of the Earth
DOS1988 action-adventure
Hard Hat Mack
DOS1984 action
Hard Hat Mack is the kind of game that proves construction work can be more dangerous in pixels than in real life, provided real life had ladders that seem determined to betray you...






























